overmount

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English

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Etymology

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From over- +‎ mount. Compare surmount.

Verb

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overmount (third-person singular simple present overmounts, present participle overmounting, simple past and past participle overmounted)

  1. (transitive) To mount over; to go higher than; to rise above.

Noun

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overmount (plural overmounts)

  1. A piece of shaped cardboard used to prevent the glass of the frame from lying too closely upon an engraving or a picture.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for overmount”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)